Shadow Government Org Chart

Shaenon: Here’s the image I used for Jonah’s and Nera’s charts of the Conspiracy. It’s about half callbacks to things from past storylines, and half children’s book references.

In addition to Project Skin Horse, the code name we all know and love, this chart includes a Project Silvereye. Project Silvereye is… AG-I, the government superhero team. Everyone who’s been wracking your brains trying to figure out what “AG-I” stands for, I’m sorry. It’s a terrible piece of periodic table/YA novel wordplay.

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It didn’t even occur to me to wonder what AG-I was. I figured (correctly, it seems) that the “I” was “eye”, simply based on Panoptica’s uniform. But beyond that, I wasn’t concerned. I knew if the meaning was important enough, it would work its way into one of the stories.

My clue that the “I” was an “eye” was Panoptica’s uniform. All the other AG-I uniforms have “AG-I” emblazoned on them, on assorted backgrounds (on the collar of the cape for Pan’s partner in SH’s office; on a shield on Red Knight’s chest; and in an oval on the breastplate of the battlesuit Virginia wore to defeat the Red Knight). Panoptica, however, has just the letters “AG” on a silver background shaped like an eye. (Panoptica is Greek for “all seeing”.)

Sorry about the double posting, but I’ve been going through it in more detail, and some of those “references to past storylines” are even more obscure/further abroad: there’s at least two references to Smithson in there, and possibly one to Lil Mell.

Had to look it up. Turns out I’ve heard the joke, but never connected it with Paar, as he was a few years before my time.

And didn’t connect “Wayside Chapel” with the joke, since I have personally been to a couple places that are actually called “Wayside Chapel”. (So I have also heard of the Wayside Chapel, but not in the sense you meant.)

Funny how NBC’s censoring the joke without any warning to Paar prompted him to quit The Tonight Show — without any warning to NBC. And then a critic claiming Paar was “washed up on television” prompted him to return to The Tonight Show less than a month later. Flighty booger, wasn’t he?